Canonising Shakespeare
Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640–1740
Emma Depledge editor Peter Kirwan editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:4th Aug '22
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This book demonstrates how the book trade of 1640–1740 canonised Shakespeare by selling, editing and promoting his plays and poems.
This book appeals to scholars with interests in Shakespeare's authorial and publication history and book history, from the Renaissance to the early eighteenth century. International experts show how booksellers, editors, printers and publishers shaped the Shakespeare canon, adapting the presentation of Shakespeare's plays and poems for a range of consumers.Canonising Shakespeare offers the first comprehensive reassessment of Shakespeare's afterlife as a print phenomenon, demonstrating the crucial role that the book trade played in his rise to cultural pre-eminence. 1640–1740 was the period in which Shakespeare's canon was determined, in which the poems resumed their place alongside the plays in print, and in which artisans and named editors crafted a new, contemporary Shakespeare for Restoration and eighteenth-century consumers. A team of international contributors highlight the impact of individual booksellers, printers, publishers and editors on the Shakespearean text, the books in which it was presented, and the ways in which it was promoted. From radical adaptations of the Sonnets to new characters in plays, and from elegant subscription volumes to cheap editions churned out by feuding publishers, this period was marked by eclecticism, contradiction and innovation as stationers looked to the past and the future to create a Shakespeare for their own times.
ISBN: 9781316608258
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
Weight: 385g
282 pages